May, 2026 : Belden Acquires RUCKUS To Expand Full-Stack Networking
📅 - Belden has agreed to acquire enterprise networking provider RUCKUS Networks for $1.85 billion, a move that signals a shift toward full-stack connectivity offerings as demand grows for integrated IT and operational technology environments, particularly in sectors where wireless performance and network reliability are becoming critical infrastructure rather than supporting systems for global enterprise and industrial customers.
The deal is not just about scale. Belden, historically focused on industrial networking and connectivity, is stepping into a different layer of the stack. RUCKUS brings Wi-Fi, enterprise switching, and a cloud-managed networking platform. That combination fills a gap [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Vanta Tops $300M ARR As AI Fuels Security Demand - Vanta has crossed $300 million in annual recurring revenue, driven by rapid adoption of its AI-powered security and compliance platform, as companies struggle to manage rising risk tied to ungoverned AI usage and increasingly complex third-party ecosystems, with growth accelerating sharply over the past two years amid expanding enterprise demand for continuous trust verification capabilities.
The headline number is striking. Tripling ARR since 2024, growing more than 60 percent year over year, and expanding to over 16,000 customers suggests momentum that goes beyond incremental product improvements. Something else is happening.
Part of it comes down to timing. AI is being deployed faster [...]
📅 - Australia Data Center Forecast Exposes Growth Uncertainty - Australia's data center sector is entering a new phase of scrutiny, as industry body Data Centres Australia partners with market intelligence firm DC Byte to introduce independent forecasting aimed at addressing growing uncertainty around capacity growth, planning assumptions, and investment signals, with the first joint report projecting national capacity to more than double by the end of the decade.
The headline number is straightforward. Australia currently operates around 1.5 gigawatts of data center capacity. That figure is expected to reach roughly 3.2 gigawatts by 2030. On paper, that suggests steady expansion, aligned with broader Asia Pacific growth trends and increasing demand [...]
📅 - Fortinet Study Warns AI-Driven Cybercrime Is Scaling Rapidly - Fortinet has published its 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report, warning that cybercrime is evolving into a coordinated, AI-enabled system rather than isolated attacks, as telemetry from 2025 shows shrinking exploit timelines, surging ransomware activity, and a growing reliance on automated tooling that is reshaping how attackers operate across industries and geographies at scale globally today.
The report lands at a moment when most organizations still think in terms of incidents. One breach here, one ransomware event there. That framing no longer holds. According to Fortinet's data, attackers are operating across a full lifecycle - reconnaissance, access, exploitation, monetization - [...]
📅 - OpenObserve Raises $10M To Rethink AI Observability - OpenObserve has secured $10 million in Series A funding as enterprises confront mounting complexity in monitoring AI-driven systems, with the company positioning its unified observability platform as an alternative to fragmented legacy stacks, promising significantly lower storage costs and automated operational insights amid growing demand for real-time visibility across increasingly distributed infrastructure environments.
The funding itself is not unusual. What stands out is the framing. Observability, once treated as a supporting function, is being repositioned as a core operational layer in the AI era. The volume of telemetry data has expanded sharply. Logs, metrics, traces, user [...]
📅 - Palo Alto Targets AI Agent Security with Portkey Buy - Palo Alto Networks is moving deeper into AI security with plans to acquire Portkey, a startup focused on managing and securing AI agent traffic, as enterprises begin shifting from experimental AI deployments toward autonomous systems that operate across critical business workflows with limited human oversight and increasing exposure to new security risks at scale.
The deal is less about adding another product and more about filling a gap that is emerging quickly. AI agents - not copilots, not isolated models, but systems that act, decide, and interact with other systems - are starting to appear inside enterprise environments. They operate with privileges. They trigger actions. They move [...]
📅 - NVIDIA B300 Server Prices Hit $1M In China Supply Crunch - NVIDIA's most advanced AI servers are now trading for close to $1 million per unit in China, according to a Reuters report citing industry sources, as tightening enforcement against chip smuggling collides with sustained demand from domestic technology firms, driving a sharp divergence in pricing and exposing the growing strain on access to high-performance compute in the country.
The figures, reported by Reuters and based on conversations with industry sources, point to a market under visible stress. NVIDIA's DGX B300 systems, widely used for high-end AI workloads, have seen prices surge far beyond global benchmarks. What had been a gradual increase earlier this year accelerated sharply [...]
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